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Macilau, Mario

Born 1984 in Maputo, Mozambique
Lives and works in Maputa, Mozambique

Mário Macilau, Untitled 4, from Things Fall Apart series, 2021, Photographic print, 60 x 90 cm. Courtesy of Ed Cross Fine Art. 

Characteristic of Mário Macilau’s photographic process, Things Fall Apart (2021) is the result of a long-term project engaging specific communities – in this case, locals in the north of Mozambique. The artist’s full-colour depictions of individuals, the ephemera of their lives, labour and relationships, are at once sensitive and troubling: stark, and subtle. Things Fall Apart shares themes with Chinua Achebe’s 1958 novel of the same name, and Macilau’s close-ups call on those parts to summon the story of their whole.  

 Major exhibitions include: Faith Rituals and the Sea, Guns and Rain, Johannesburg (2019); The Pavilion of the Holy Sea at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015) and Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Vitra Design Museum, Guggenheim Bilbao and other museums (2015 onwards).

Selected Artists

Charlene Komuntale

Leila Rose Fanner

Safaa Erruas

Hanien Conradie

Souleimane Barry

Bunmi Agusto

Barthélémy Toguo

Famakan Magassa

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